
Explosive Past by Tom Pilston
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Nearly 100 years after First World War (WWI) Dirk Van Parijs, team leader with the Belgian Unexploded Ordnance Disposal Group continues to collect ploughed up WW1 munitions from farms in the Ypres area. Many are left by farmers in telegraph poles at the side of the road. Some are high explosive and some contain poison gas.
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